Afghan heroin kills more people from NATO countries every year than Afghan insurgents have killed in the eight years since the fall of the Taliban regime, the United Nations said Wednesday.
World failing to dent heroin trade, U.N. warns
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Nigeria hopes peace can bring big China deals
Nigeria has set its sights on making multibillion-dollar oil deals with China amid peace moves with militants.
Comparing Apple’s new crop to its classics
Lawmakers in the west African country — one of the world’s top producers of oil — are crafting new money-making changes for its state oil corporation, as officials negotiate multibillion-dollar oil deals with China.
Skype and Job Interviews: Webcam Meetings on the Rise
Get ready for a closeup: your next job interview might be on webcam.
Luxuries dazzle gangsters’ girls
All that glitters may not be gold, but for Colombia’s narco-molls the most important thing is that it glitters. Beauty queens, fashion models, actresses or regular girls made good are lovers of drug capos and above all lovers of the finest luxuries cocaine money can buy
Blast kills at least 8 in Pakistan
At least eight people were killed Thursday morning when a suicide car bomber rammed a police station in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.
Are Development Dollars in Pakistan Being Well Spent?
To development experts who have long called for a shift in strategy in the Muslim world, it would seem like cause for celebration.
Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth
Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them.
Indian teen loses leg after being tossed from train by police
Doctors had to amputate the leg of a 13-year-old snack vendor who was thrown off a moving train after he reportedly did not have money to bribe a guard, authorities said Sunday.
Taiwan’s Chen, wife sentenced to life
Former Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his wife, former first lady Wu Shu-chen, were convicted Friday on corruption and money laundering charges and sentenced to life in prison, according to officials at Taipei City Court. They also were fined 200 million New Taiwan dollars (U.S.$6.1 million).